Picture Show: Gavin Newsom is the Problem
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Gavin Newsom Should Shut His Collaborator Mouth
To tell you the truth, I actually hate talking about noted shithead Governor of California Gavin Newsom. After all, I’ve been pretty clear about my belief that electoral politics in a wholly captured free market fundamentalist oligarchy isn’t going to help us stop fascism; which is why I have been devoting a lot less attention to election discussions these days. This means that on some level, the fact that Gavin Newsom is a soulless reactionary prick who’d sell his own mother into slavery if it polled well enough, doesn’t matter that much to me in the near term of a battle to destroy American fascism. The long term is another story however, because Newsom has designs on the White House if America survives a second Trump presidency and even if he actually won, it would be a disaster for folks who oppose fascism.
As such, if I were to articulate an important goal for people who do care about electoral politics, it would be to ensure by any reasonable methods whatsoever, that Gavin Newsom does not win the 2028 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Why? Well for starters he’s absolutely a type of fascist himself, and perhaps even more importantly, Newsome is also a complete fucking dipshit who would struggle to win an election against even heinously unpopular nazis like Stephen Miller or the Trump sons. In other words, Gavin Newsom running against a fascist simply ensures that fascism will win the 2028 US Presidential election either way. If you want some form of Trumpism entrenched as a permanent political dynasty in the United States even long after Downmarket Mussolini finally croaks, running Gavin Newsom for president is one way to get there.
Speaking frankly, I think Newsom’s eliminationist policies towards unhoused people in California, and his willingness to chum around with nazi Trump regime propagandists on his podcast while agreeing they make some good points about things like trans rights, should be enough to disqualify him from political life immediately, let alone a 2028 Dem nomination run. This is in addition to the fact that he’s a soulless neoliberal who talks like a progressive but has been quietly transforming California into a police state. For some reason however, “Very Serious People TM” in my newspaper and on my TV have played these morally inexcusable activities off as savvy “realpolitik” decisions that make him an ideal candidate to stop Trumpism at the ballot box, despite the fact that no reasonable person should consider “getting elected” on a Republican platform to be any sort of “win” for people who aren’t Republicans and nazis.
Personally I have always thought that Newsom’s vaunted “political instincts” are actually garbage and pretending he’s a brain genius smooth political operator is basically wish-casting for bougie liberal strategists who wish Reaganism were more popular and Bill Clinton was still president. As if to prove that point, Newsom recently argued that Trump literally kidnapping and trafficking an innocent man to a notorious torture prison in El Salvador was the “distraction of the day”, and an “80/20” issue for Republicans; as if the installation of a fascist dictatorship and the obliteration of our constitutional rights were a debate about paper straws or which airport should be named after the Klepto Kaiser. It honestly doesn’t matter if Newsom’s rightward shift is ideological, or rooted in his political ambitions; this guy is a fucking collaborator.
As this short video analysis by Francesca Fiorentini from The Bitchuation Room points out, not only is Newsom’s argument that Democrats should abandon Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the tender mercies of Nayib Bukele’s prison guards callous and reactionary in nature, but all available evidence strongly suggests it’s just terrible fucking politics too:
Additional Resources
The Bitchuation Room YouTube Channel
Loser Democrats Don’t Care About Trump’s Lawlessness
Gavin Newsom Is A Piece of Shit
A Month After SCOTUS Decision, Newsom Issues Order Targeting Unhoused People
Nina-Bytes: California Über Alles
CA Gov Gavin Newsom “Completely Aligns” With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast
What Election Do These People Think We Just Had?
The fascist moment is here: Have mainstream liberals heard the alarm go off?
Broadly speaking, I honestly couldn’t give a rat’s ass who wins the 2028 Democratic Party presidential nomination; I’m here to fight nazis. But for those of you who still believe stopping fascism has anything to do with electing Democrats who enable fascism, the fact that “very important” people in the mainstream discourse are touting Newsom as a leading candidate for the next US presidential election should fucking alarm you. The Democratic Party just lost an election to a reality TV show nazi by appeasing fascists and running as sensible Reaganite Republicans; Gavin Newsom isn’t the solution, he’s the fucking problem – and if they run that stiff for President, the Democratic Party will fucking lose. Again.
– Nina Illingworth
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